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Adria

Adria reached its high-water mark in 1979 at number 905, and has been recorded 6,513 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,028th. About 6,000 Adrias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 38.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Adria boys named Adria

By the numbers

Total US births
6,513
Estimated living today
6,000
Median age today
38
Peak year
1979
Best rank
905th
Rank in 2025
3,028th
First recorded
1910
Girls / boys
6,506 / 7

How old the living Adrias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,513 babies given the name since 1910, about 6,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 420 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1987 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

From Latin Adria, Hadria. Compare Adriatic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Adrias

People named Adria with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Adria is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Adria is most concentrated in Florida (2.4×), Texas (2.3×), California (2.2×), New York (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1979

The most popular girls’ names the year Adria peaked:

All the names of 1979

Adria elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Spain boys Adria 6,356 70th
France girls Adria 590 425th
England and Wales girls Adria 76 2,969th
Switzerland girls Adria 26 1,116th
France boys Adrià +1 spelling 20 5,305th
Belgium girls Adria 16 886th
Ireland girls Adria 3 873rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Adria: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Adria 14 0.001% 1,050th
French girls Switzerland Adria 11 0.003% 562nd
Italian girls Switzerland Adria 1 0.002% 200th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Adria: rank by region

In 2024, Adria was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Adria 411 6

In 2005, Adria was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

Region Spelling Place Children
Cataluña Adria 10 578

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Where Adria lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 17,336 men called Adria were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Girona Adria 2,132 5.120 35
Lleida Adria 1,092 4.638 40
Tarragona Adria 1,655 3.776 55
Barcelona Adria 9,813 3.365 59
Balears, Illes Adria 1,045 1.678 95
Valencia/València Adria 893 0.660 170

Listed in 34 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 18 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Adria against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.